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Decided to stay up late and play some Go. This player has a record of wins denoting what I believe to be skill higher than his KGS rank, so all things considered I am pretty happy with this game except for the several obvious blunders I made.

I would appreciate any advice on my overall play, I definitely messed up on a simple life and death and allowed myself to be pushed around a few times by just not paying attention to potential ataris. I am more looking for thoughts on what were good moves and what were bad moves that aren't the really obvious ones. Thanks!
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Just a few thoughts:

7: allows white to make a base. Why not pincer at r7?

27: doesn't seem to do much right now. Why not attack the weak white group at r7? After 37 the whole area belonged to white.

51: There are so many big points on the board, e.g. c15, j17, c11

117: That's a small endgame move (even a gote one if you were in the endgame phase). Try something bigger, e.g. c10

127: Allows white an easy escape. Just cut with n12 and then o11 and o12 are miai

137: On tsuke play hane

251: Are you afraid of playing ko? Go and look for some ko threats (some examples that caught my eye: n1, n13, c18, s5)
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Post by daniel_the_smith »

199 is a mistake. You can live there, try to figure out how-- it's a good problem. (EDIT: there are two ways to live. Find both.)

26 is terrible (not your fault, I know).

In the contact plays in the lower right you seemed to leave an awful lot of cutting points. Don't play so tightly.
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Post by DIV »

yea, 199 is one of the simple life and death mistakes i was talking about. playing either p1 or o1 or q2 seem to give life there, basically every easy to spot move that I was a fool about.
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